Kelas Parmak Headcanons of Joy and Terror (Part I)

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So, I got a really cool ask from vaiyamagic about her headcanons for Parmak, and it made me want to get my own ideas down for him because a) my computer crashed and I am going to have to re-write everything on my harddrive about him from scratch anyway and b) my headcanons for him seem to differ a lot from other people’s. I don’t know if that’s a bad thing or not, but I’ve already typed out four pages of junk so it’s too late to back out now!

So, I’m working from the Character Survey of Doom as a loose guide (if anyone can point me to the original source for that I’d be happy to link to it!) and I’m going to start picking through some of the parts of it – physical appearance, mental and emotional stuff, relationships and daily life.

I’ll probably get a little into the original characters later, too – as ONE FILE for them was one of the few things my computer didn’t eat.

So here’s the first part!

Kelas Parmak - Physical Appearance (and a bit of rambling about the Cardassian medical system toward the end):

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(cosmictuesdays): Parmak would have to have found something beyond Cardassia to cling to in the camp.
(cosmictuesdays): Contrast to Garak, who clung to Cardassia as an ideal.
(cosmictuesdays): Parmak would have found his footing on something far more insubstantial, to make it out alive. Not just stubbornness.
(cosmictuesdays): Have you ever read Maus?
(cosmictuesdays): There’s a segment in there where a woman talked about how different people came out of it differently - there’s a lot of one’s own character that comes into shaping how one survives circumstances.
(cosmictuesdays): Parmak forgave Garak of everything. Of what he’d done, of what he will do.
(cosmictuesdays): To come out of that life, and be willing to forgive - that’s very Buddhist of him.
(cosmictuesdays): “You still believe in Cardassia,” Parmak says. “You still believe in what she might yet be.”
(cosmictuesdays): “That, I can love.”
peachsynapse: parmak needs People.
peachsynapse: i never have read maus.
(cosmictuesdays): It’s intense.
peachsynapse: mmmmmmm. perhaps parmaks’ going to have to learn that.
(cosmictuesdays): You’d need a sit down.
peachsynapse: going to have to see it with his own eyes. because there are a lot of people who are just doing their duty, who don’t Believe In Cardassia.
peachsynapse: with garak, though, ti’s a flame.
peachsynapse: and it’s still burning evven in the dust and darkness.
peachsynapse: parmark, watching him, would see that.
peachsynapse: i like that.

garak, parmak, morality, and bmouse

peachsynapse: thinking a lot about garak and parmak lately
peachsynapse: and what a complicated relationship that’s gonna be
bmouse: yeah I mean it’s a neat ship
bmouse: cardassian bits for everyone. I’m even prepared to ignore the ‘Here’s a Nice Forgiving Doctor Character Who Is the Right Species WOMP WOMP’

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Prompt: Parmak tying his hair back for kelasparmak. Sorry for the delay.

lol I gave him a flower and a lil’ bug friend idk…

[uberboned]

i don’t remember whether parmak’s ponytail is canon or if agatharights came up with it but in any case it is now canon in my head

also in my head he has been a cardassian kalani queypo ever since i saw someone using him as a cecil pb, these are all copied from pictures of him because he is an astoundingly pretty person.

Morality Pet: Dr. Parmak is Garak’s Morality Pet. He openly refers to Parmak as his conscience, and seeks his presence when wrestling with awareness of his own personal history (which is questionable).

Literature/Star Trek The Fall - Television Tropes & Idioms

ahahahhahaaaaa!

Once again, tvtropes smacks the nail directly on the head.

an excerpt from an extended letter from one Elim Garak to Dr. Julian Bashir…

[sparrowings]

…He’s a very good man, this Dr. Parmak; he reminds me of an older version of you, Doctor. But what is once again ironic is that Dr. Parmak was once marginally involved in an illegal political group, and when he was arrested, guess who was responsible for his interrogation? The man is anything but a coward, but his sensitivity is such that all I had to do was stare at him for four hours and he told us everything he knew. He claims that even today he has a hard time looking me in the eye. I have asked his forgiveness, and he has been kind enough to give it. I hope the new Cardassia will have more people like him.

…I [thought about the] Cardassian sense of duty and how it is largely responsible for bringing those of us are left to these current circumstances. I asked Dr. Parmak how an entire people can come under the sway of this duty and blindly give allegiance to a state that goes mad and murders its own children.

“Poisonous pedagogy, Elim,” he replied. “We believe what we are taught.”

-  from A Stitch In Time by Andrew J. Robinson; this scene is set shortly after “What We Leave Behind”.

The last time I read through it, I hadn’t seen “Improbable Cause” or “The Die is Cast” in ages; the reference to Dr. Parmak (who is brought up by Tain while reminiscing about the good ol’ days of the Obsidian Order) went right over my head.

More thoughts about why I found Elim Garak so compelling in The Crimson Shadow.

In Elim Garak’s time as an Obsidian Order operative Dr Parmak was interrogated by Garak after being arrested for being part of an illegal political group, the interrogation was implemented in part as test by Enabran Tain, wanting to be sure his doctor was trustworthy. Parmak was no coward but was rather sensitive and after four hours of Garak staring at him he relented and told them everything he knew.

Parmak was sent to a labor camp for three years. After he was released, he returned to Cardassia and practiced medicine again. (DS9 episode: “The Die is Cast”)

Years later, when Dr. Parmak was working with Garak in the voluntary med unity, he still had trouble making eye contact at first, but the past was soon forgotten and the two became good friends.

Parmak - Memory Beta, non-canon Star Trek Wiki

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